Antigonon leptopus Hook. & Arn. (Polygonaceae), popularly known as amor-agarradinho, is an ornamental plant widely used as a resource for honey bees and stingless bees, however, there is little information on the diversity ...

The diversity and abundance of wild insect pollinators have declined in many agricultural landscapes. Whether such declines reduce crop yields, or are mitigated by managed pollinators such as honey bees, is unclear. We ...

Honeybee hives may influence pollen and nectar availability in natural ecosystems, which may consequently affect wild pollinators. We studied the effects of managed honeybee hives on wild bee diversity in Villavicencio ...

Fipronil is an insecticide widely used to control a great number of pests, thus the aim of this study was to determine the lethal dose and lethal concentration (LD50 and LC50) of this insecticide to the stingless bees ...

In order to conduct a proper risk assessment of pesticides to bees, information is needed in three areas: (i) the toxicity of the pesticide; (ii) the probability of bee exposure to that pesticide; and (iii) the population ...

© 2015 New Zealand Plant Protection Society (Inc.). In New Zealand, unmanaged bees species can be important crop pollinators, but their abundance and distribution is poorly known within hybrid carrot seed crops. Standardised ...

White clover (Trifolium repens L.) seed crops require insects for pollination. Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 are normally placed within fields but other insects might also be contributing additional pollination. To ...